Acclaimed at numerous film festivals, including Venice, IDFA, and Sheffield, Narcissus off Duty is a grippingly intimate documentary that takes a deep dive in the oral history of the multiple Grammy award-winning Brazilian singer Caetano Veloso and his incarceration at the hands of the dictatorship. Early one day of December 1968, the police knocked on his door, arrested him without charge, and took him to a converted army barracks for allegedly singing the National Anthem to the melody of his popular song, Tropicalia. What he thought would be an overnight in jail lasted nearly two months. Now, over 50 years later, Veloso shares this dark chapter of his life without looking away from the camera in uninterrupted detail. Produced by renowned filmmaker Walter Salles (Central Station and Motorcycle Diaries), and Paula Lavigne, Narcissus off Duty gives Veloso the space to narrate his own story in this softly emotional movie, which is both a celebration of the talented musician as well as a cautionary tale.
5:30pm / Redstone Theater
Museum of the Moving Image, Queens